Summary

The Extinction Equation predicts our Dire Doom! Which is to say, the Empire doesn't make mathematical sense, according to the Engine. But surely the amazing powers of three geniuses can save us all!

Wherein There is a Tragical Conclusion Marvelously Averted by the Powers of Science, With Interesting & Curious Anecdotes of Eccentric and Distinguished Characters Fully Illustrating a Variety of Instructive and Amusing Scenes as Performed Within and Without the Remarkable DIFFERENCE ENGINE.

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“One for the land, one for the sea,” my mother finally sang under her breath in a low chant. “That'll mean something to us all, right enough, but especially to you.” She shook her head and looked away, back toward my laughing sisters and brother in the salt spray. “Good thing our blood have always been people of the tide, my girl. You can see the farthest in all directions, standing on the threshold. You might get hit by the door once in a while, but at least you can choose which side of it to stand on.”

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The funny thing – and by funny, Clint means weird, but also kind of ha-ha, in retrospect – is that it takes over a week to figure out that he and Coulson are telepathically bonded. It seems like the sort of thing that should have been obvious from the get-go, but neither of them notice; the thousand little ways they've gotten used to reading each other over the years are almost like telepathy, after all.

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Neither of them mentioned it, but there were older scars beneath the new bruises, signposts of other adventures and near-death experiences. "I think it'd be beyond lucky if either of us ended up dying of natural causes."

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She creeps through the dark passage connecting their rooms. It is designed to discreetly deliver a husband to a wife, and Liselotte cannot ignore the irony as her fingers knock through a cobweb.

There’s a crack of light from Phillipe’s bedroom on the bare stone wall, and Liselotte hesitates. Her resolve wavers somewhat as she draws closer, and she fumbles through her mind for an appropriate excuse for turning up unannounced.